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You know you’re in for an adrenaline-pumping ride when the iconic Mission: Impossible soundtrack plays in the intro! Tom Cruise has kept the franchise alive for years through death-defying stunts, and an unwavering commitment to delivering a truly memorable performance in each film.

Tom Cruise | Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube

We’ve followed the journey of secret agent Ethan Hunt for almost three decades, and each time the series makes a return, you know that Cruise is about to perform a thrilling action set piece that will be etched in cinematic history. He’s pushed his physical limit in every movie, which makes one question, just how old he was during the release of each film from his magnum opus franchise. So, let’s look at the franchise’s evolution and map Cruise’s age as we go along.

The Start of the Journey: Tom Cruise’s Age in Mission: Impossible...

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It’s hard to imagine Tom Cruise saying goodbye to Ethan Hunt, the character he’s dutifully portrayed since 1996’s Mission: Impossible. But the teaser for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which dropped today, sure makes it seem like the end of the road for a character that’s outlasted countless crises, two James Bonds, and five presidential administrations.

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Tom Cruise seals a groundbreaking $200 million space film deal via Zoom without a script (Photo Credit – Amazon Prime Video)

In a move that’d make even the most daring astronauts envious, Tom Cruise managed to score a $200M deal for a film to be shot in space—all without a script! While most filmmakers would sweat over pages and pages of dialogue, Cruise dazzled Universal Pictures during a Zoom call.

Deadline reported that the virtual pitch included Cruise, director Doug Liman, writer Christopher McQuarrie, and producer Pj van Sandwijk. It was like a Hollywood dream team on a mission (pun intended). They whipped up a whirlwind of enthusiasm and sealed the deal, making history with the first-ever narrative film to be shot in outer space. Who knew a casual Zoom could result in such an astronomical commitment?

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is joining the adventure, ensuring the project has the rocket science seal of approval.

“Dune” actress Rebecca Ferguson poses for a fashion collaboration between designer Nensi Dojaka and Calvin Klein, “…celebrating the power of female sensuality”, photographed by Harley Weir:

“The collection is an exploration of femininity,”, said Dojaka.

“But I’ve never wanted to approach femininity the ‘normal’ way.

“I want to re-paint the image of women…

“…showing both sides: the vulnerability…

“…but also the strength that characterizes them.

“For me, femininity is about embracing the contrast that lives within us…’

Ferguson came to international prominence with her portrayal of 'Elizabeth Woodville'…

…in the Brit TV miniseries "The White Queen" (2013).

She then starred as 'MI6' agent 'Ilsa Faust'…

…in the action spy features “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" (2015) and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout' (2018).

She played 'Jenny Lind' in the musical feature “The Greatest Showman" (2017)…

…then starred in horror films "Life" (2017) and "Doctor Sleep" (2019)...

...plus supporting roles in...

Was Tom Cruise obsessed with Mission Impossible Co-star? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Tom Cruise’s relationship with Nicole Kidman was one of Hollywood’s iconic love stories. From being the industry’s power couple in the 90s, they were married for over a decade, and their on and off-screen chemistry was unforgettable. Cruise found himself with Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible years after their split. Since the actor has always garnered much attention for his personal life, he reportedly grew to have an infatuation with Ferguson.

Although Cruise has always desired privacy in his personal life, his off-screen romance with Ferguson didn’t go unnoticed by his fans. As per the National Enquirer, the Top Gun actor was drawn to Ferguson because she highly resembled his ex-wife, Kidman. The source also suggested that what caught Cruise’s attention with Ferguson was a scene similar to one Kidman had done in the past.

Christopher McQuarrie's 2015 action blockbuster "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" — the fifth film in the series, and handily its best — has an unexpectedly inverted action movie structure. It begins with the film's biggest, most impressive stunt, and ends with characters merely sitting around a table, discussing how they are to defuse a bomb strapped to a colleague and locate the bad guy who is orchestrating his end of the conversation by remote. And yet, despite the inversion, the tension never stops mounting. Each moment of the film's extended climax gets decreasingly small, while the excitement only rises.

Recall that, just two hours before, audiences were witnessing an unsimulated stunt, wherein Tom Cruise clung to the side of a plane as it was taking off, riding it up into the sky. Cruise actually had to be strapped to the side of a real plane to do that, and even required special...

“Dune” actress Rebecca Ferguson , the current star of science fiction TV series “Silo”, poses for a collaboration between designer Nensi Dojaka and Calvin Klein, “…celebrating the power of female sensuality”, photographed by Harley Weir:

“The collection is an exploration of femininity,”, said Dojaka.

“But I’ve never wanted to approach femininity the ‘normal’ way.

“I want to re-paint the image of women, showing both sides: the vulnerability, but also the strength that characterizes them.

“For me, femininity is about embracing the contrast that lives within us…’

Ferguson came to international prominence with her portrayal of 'Elizabeth Woodville' in the Brit TV miniseries "The White Queen" (2013).

She then starred as 'MI6' agent 'Ilsa Faust'…

…in the action spy features “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" (2015) and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout' (2018).

She played 'Jenny Lind' in the musical feature “The Greatest Showman" (2017)…

…then starred in horror films "Life...

“Dune” actress Rebecca Ferguson poses for a fashion collaboration between designer Nensi Dojaka and Calvin Klein, “…celebrating the power of female sensuality”, photographed by Harley Weir:

“The collection is an exploration of femininity,”, said Dojaka.

“But I’ve never wanted to approach femininity the ‘normal’ way.

“I want to re-paint the image of women, showing both sides: the vulnerability, but also the strength that characterizes them.

“For me, femininity is about embracing the contrast that lives within us…’

Ferguson came to international prominence with her portrayal of 'Elizabeth Woodville' in the Brit TV miniseries "The White Queen" (2013).

She then starred as 'MI6' agent 'Ilsa Faust'…

…in the action spy features “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" (2015) and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout' (2018).

She played 'Jenny Lind' in the musical feature “The Greatest Showman" (2017), then starred in horror films "Life" (2017) and "Doctor Sleep" (2019)...

...plus supporting roles in comedy-drama...

When you think of Tom Cruise movies, the first action movies that come to mind are probably the Mission: Impossible movies or the Top Gun movies. Those are two of the most successful action franchises featuring Cruise, so that makes sense.

Despite Cruise being well known in the action space for those movies, along with the death-defying stunts performed while making those movies, there's another of Cruise's action movies that often gets forgotten.

That movie is Edge of Tomorrow, which premiered in 2014, and it's back on Netflix celebrating the film's 10-year anniversary! If you're looking for what to watch on Netflix, you can't go wrong with Edge of Tomorrow.

Netflix adds Edge of Tomorrow on Sept. 7

Netflix announced in August that Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow would return to Netflix on Sept. 7. We just checked the movie is available to stream! It's not on the Netflix Top 10 for movies yet, but...

Anti-fans have found much to hate about Tom Cruise, but even the flag-bearers of the anti-Cruise club would have to acknowledge that there is no one who does death-defying stunts like the actor. The world of Mission: Impossible has consistently pushed boundaries of what is physically possible and proven that even a human can have 9 lives, or more since it is Cruise we are talking about!

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible franchise | Credit: Paramount Pictures

Having shown some of the most jaw-dropping stunts in the film industry, there was once a time that Mission: Impossible director, Christopher McQuarrie doubted himself only to realize that one stunt from the franchise was too tame compared to all the other stuff they have done.

Christopher McQuarrie Doubted One Tom Cruise’s ‘Stunt’ Only to Find it Tame Later The Rogue Nation stunt Christopher McQuarrie thought was too dangerous...

When it comes to jaw-dropping stunts, TV and film actors are often known for pushing their limits—much like Stephen Amell did in the Arrow TV series. Setting the bar high with his salmon ladder sequence, Amell showcased the pinnacle of superhero training, without a stunt team’s assistance, in the pilot episode.

Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen in Arrow | image: CW, DC Studios

But then, Tom Cruise seemingly made Stephen Amell hold his popcorn, after performing a next-level stunt at 53, in his 2015 movie Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Dangling from a pole, crunching up to kick, and then flipping out like he’s been warming up, Cruise’s pole dance made even the most seasoned stunt performers question their life choices.

Stephen Amell’s Mind-Blowing Salmon Ladder Stunt in Arrow

Considering how stunt works often showcase an actor’s dedication to their roles, Stephen Amell seemingly took his work...

Jenna Ortega weighed in on the trend of remaking iconic films with female leads.

The Wednesday star was doing an interview with MTV along with her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice co-star Catherine O’Hara. Host Josh Horowitz asked Ortega’s thoughts on other potential sequels — like would she be interested in starring in a sequel to another one of director Tim Burton’s classics, Edward Scissorhands, which could hypothetically be called Edith Scissorhands with Ortega in the Johnny Depp role?

While Ortega and O’Hara initially found the idea funny, Ortega quickly added, “I love that there’s a lot more female leads nowadays, I think that’s so special, but we should have our own,” she said. “I don’t like it when it’s like a spinoff — I don’t want to see like ‘Jamie Bond.’ You know? I want to see another badass.”

The comment comes amid another press interview getting some attention,...

For nearly two decades, a film adaptation of the hit 1960s spy series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." seemed perpetually on the brink of getting made. Warner Bros. nearly enticed Quentin Tarantino to take it on in the mid-1990s as his hotly anticipated follow-up to "Pulp Fiction," but he chose to make "Jackie Brown" instead. Directors like Matthew Vaughn and David Dobkin circled the project. A-listers Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Christian Bale and Ryan Reynolds (among many others) eyed the film at one point or another. Steven Soderbergh came very close to helming a version starring George Clooney as Napoleon Solo (the role originated by Robert Vaughn), but he backed out over budget issues. The film was a go in 2013 with Guy Ritchie directing Tom Cruise and Armie Hammer as, respectively, Solo and Illya Kuryakin (played by David McCallum on the show), but Cruise stuck with Ethan Hunt and the "Mission: Impossible" franchise.

Lionsgate is set to give the thriller Clear Cut, which stars Clive Standen of the Taken TV series, Tom Welling (Smallville), Stephen Dorff (Blade), and Alec Baldwin (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation), a theatrical, digital, and VOD release on July 19th – and with that date just a few weeks away, a trailer for the film has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.

Brian Skiba directed Clear Cut (formerly known as Cold Deck) from a screenplay by Joe Perruccio, who earns his first feature writing credit on this film. The Hollywood Reporter let us know that the story centers on Jack (Standen), who tries to leave his past behind him when he starts a logging job but finds that a team of criminals with a score to settle are out to kill him.

Jesse Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives), Lucy Martin (Vikings), Lochlyn Munro (Freddy vs. Jason), Chelsey Reist...

Jeremy Renner wanted to Rennervate the script for “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” after realizing his character was going to be killed off.

During an appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast (video below), Renner revealed that he turned down reprising his role of Imf agent William Brandt for the 2018 franchise installment. Renner was asked to film for one week to close out Brandt’s “M:i” arc after he starred in 2011’s “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” and 2015’s “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.”

“I remember they tried to bring me over[seas] for a week so they could kill my character, and I was like, ‘No, you don’t get to do that. You’re not going to drag me over there and just kill my character,’ like get out of here!” Renner said. “If you’re going to do this and you’re going to use my character, you’re going to do it right.

Jeremy Renner’s William Brandt was a bad*ss Imf agent introduced in Tom Cruise’s fourth film, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Renner reprised his role in the next movie, Rogue Nation, and was even rumored to take over the series from Cruise. However, he left the series right before the sixth film and it may have to do with one of the ideas from director Christopher McQuarrie.

Jeremy Renner and Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | Paramount Pictures

McQuarrie took over as the director of the films from Rogue Nation onwards and planned to kill off Renner’s character in Fallout. Renner didn’t want to go out like that in the films and turned down the opportunity to appear in the sixth film.

Jeremy Renner Was Not Happy With Mission: Impossible Director’s Idea To Kill Him Off Jeremy Renner as William Brandt in Mission: Impossible –...

Alec Baldwin announces a new reality TV series featuring his wife of 12 years Hilaria Baldwin and their seven kids. The show, titled The Baldwins, will air on TLC in 2025. The timing of the announcement has caught some attention as Baldwin awaits trial in the involuntary manslaughter of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Fans were not at all kind to Baldwin as the news reached them via social media.

The Alec-Hilaria Baldwin family (credits: @hilariabaldwin | Instagram)

Fans came up with memes and outright hurtful comments to point out that the TV series was a PR stunt to improve his image during the trial. If convicted of manslaughter, Baldwin could spend up to 18 months in prison.

Fans Brutally Criticize Alec Baldwin’s New TLC Reality Series Alec Baldwin as Alan Hunley in Mission: Impossible – Fallout | Paramount Pictures

On Tuesday, Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria Baldwin took to Instagram to announce their new reality TV series,...

In 2011, rumors and speculation had been in people’s minds that Jeremy Renner’s inclusion in the Mission: Impossible franchise with Ghost Protocol meant that he was being set up as someone who could be taking over for Tom Cruise in future films. His character, William Brandt, was even cloaked with a suspicious past in the film. Brandt ended up not becoming a replacement for Ethan Hunt, but he was a very helpful ally. He would appear again in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation as an important factor for Imf that helped deal with the political red-tape of their organization. So, where was Brandt in Mission: Impossible – Fallout?

Deadline revealed that Renner had actually turned down the opportunity to appear in that chapter of the franchise. While appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Renner says that his daughter at the time was still very young, and he was...

Jeremy Renner refused to return to 'Mission: Impossible' just to be killed off.The 53-year-old actor appeared in 2011's 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol' and 2015’s 'Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation' but rejected the opportunity to come back as Imf agent William Brandt in 2018 installment 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' as he was unhappy with the thought of being away from his young daughter to execute a plot he wasn't comfortable with.He said on the 'Happy Sad Confused' podcast: “I remember they tried to bring me over[seas] for a week so they could kill my character, and I was like, ‘No, you don’t get to do that. You’re not going to drag me over there and just kill my character,’ like get out of here! "If you’re going to do this and you’re going to use my character,...

Jeremy Renner’s history with the “Mission: Impossible” franchise spans two films, 2011’s “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” and 2015’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” During an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, the actor revealed that he was actually asked to reprise the character of Imf agent William Brandt in the 2018 sequel “Fallout.” However, the offer was apparently for Renner to shoot one week so that Brandt could be killed off. Renner refused.

“I remember they tried to bring me over[seas] for a week so they could kill my character, and I was like, ‘No, you don’t get to do that. You’re not going to drag me over there and just kill my character,’ like get out of here!” Renner said. “If you’re going to do this and you’re going to use my character, you’re going to do it right.”

“I yelled at...

Jeremy Renner, who has made a remarkable comeback from near-fatal injuries, says he’s now ready for another impossible mission. Or make that Mission: Impossible.

Renner played agent William Brandt in the 2011 film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and the 2015 release Mission: Impossible -Rogue Nation.

But he then withdrew from the series. The reason, he says, is because of the birth of his daughter in 2013. After a brief marriage and divorce, Renner obtained split custody, which limited the amount of time he could devote to filming another Mission: Impossible, he said in an interview with Collider.

“I had to leave that,’ he said of the movie series. ‘I was supposed to do more with them. I love those guys. I love Tom so much.”

He added, “We had so much fun, and I love that character a lot. It requires a lot of time away. It’s all in London.

British filmmakers Sean Cronin and Peter Stylianou’s latest feature, “Drained,” has wrapped post-production and is being sold by Cronin’s Magnificent Films at the Cannes Film Market.

Cronin is also an actor who has appeared in “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” He has played villains in some 89 films, besides directing several titles.

“Drained,” a vampire film, co-directed and produced by Cronin and Stylianou from a screenplay by Stylianou, follows Thomas, a jobless post-graduate artist who falls for Rhea, a mysterious woman who is revealed to be a vampire. As their dark romance progresses, Thomas’s health declines, plunging him into a chaotic spiral.

The cast features Ruaridh Aldington (“Dirty Boy”) and Madalina Bellariu Ion (“Dampyr”) as the doomed lovers. Supporting roles are filled by Craig Conway (“Dog Soldiers”), Angela Dixon (“Never Let Go”), Andrew Lyle-Pinnock, Natasha Patel (“The Witcher: Blood Origin...

Tom Cruise has surprised many throughout his extensive career in the film industry with his passion for filmmaking, his acting prowess, and his extreme stunt performances. And the Oscar-nominated actor Colin Farrell, who co-starred alongside Cruise in the 2002 sci-fi action film Minority Report, also found himself caught in the whirlwind of Cruise’s relentless pursuit of perfection.

Minority Report (2002) | Credit: 20th Century Fox

The actor recalled witnessing the ultra-perfectionist side of the action star while working on the movie as he shared that he was amazed at how competitive and engaged Cruise could get while starring in Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi action movie.

Colin Farrell Reflected on Working With Tom Cruise in Minority Report

Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise in the lead, Minority Report is set in the future where crimes are predicted and prevented before they occur. Sharing the screen with Cruise, Colin Farrell landed the...

[This story contains spoilers for The Fall Guy.]

After the many industry-wide challenges of the last four years, The Fall Guy screenwriter Drew Pearce just wanted to make a feel-good Friday night movie, and based on various metrics, the consensus among critics and audiences is that he and the rest of his collaborators succeeded. In ten years, the social framing around the David Leitch-directed movie won’t be that it opened to $27.7 million instead of a projected $30 million. Rather, the impression of a good action romcom will remain above all.

Pearce is no stranger to IP-driven films, as he’s officially written for Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3, the fifth Mission: Impossible film, Rogue Nation, as well as the Fast & Furious spinoff, Hobbs and Shaw. That also doesn’t include all the cups of coffee he’s had with other franchises in an uncredited capacity. So, compared to the aforementioned IP, the assumption is that The Fall Guy,...

Ever since the dawn of cinema, stunts have been at the heart of the medium. The very first motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge’s 1878 reel The Horse In Motion, captured a jockey riding a horse at speed — cinema’s first stunt! And ever since then, fearless stunt people have been engaging themselves in the ultimate game of one-upmanship, putting their bodies on the line and minds at work to help make movies soar higher, go faster, hit harder, and be bigger than ever before. Even if the Oscars still aren’t ready to recognise that just yet with a Stunt category, we don’t need an awards ceremony to pay tribute to the crazy folk who do this stuff for real.

To celebrate the stunt community – and mark the release of stunt-tastic action extravaganza The Fall Guy – take a look back over the craziest movie stunts that were actually done for real.

Ostensibly a big-screen reboot of the 1980s television series of the same name, “The Fall Guy” is actually director and former stunt performer David Leitch’s love letter to both his wife, producer Kelly McCormick, and the undersung art of stunt work — only not always in that order.

Working closely with screenwriter and executive producer Drew Pearce, who previously scripted his “Fast and the Furious” spinoff “Hobbs & Shaw,” Leitch creates a clearinghouse of gobsmacking stunts (some truly record-breaking) while chronicling the tumultuous relationship between veteran stunt man Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) and first-time director Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt). It’s quick-witted (and quick-footed) fun that bridges multiple generations of Hollywood moviemaking, melding together rom-coms and bombastic action into one blockbuster package.

Since making his screenwriting debut on Shane Black’s “Iron Man 3,” Pearce has developed an aptitude for conceiving stories that maintain a singular yet cohesive tonal balance.

Exclusive: Outlier Society is developing the Amazon MGM Studios action thriller movie, T-Minus, which is being co-scripted by Fall Guy‘s Drew Pearce and Watchmen and Station Eleven scribe Nick Cuse.

Outlier Society’s Michael B. Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo will produce with Pearce who is producing via his Point of No Return Films and Isa Dick Hackett via Electric Shepherd Productions.

Pearce

The project was initially developed by Pearce’s banner Point of No Return Films. Outlier Society’s Elizabeth Raposo heard the pitch—said to be an action-thriller along the lines of “Top Gun meets Back to the Future, with a Philip K. Dick twist”—and saw the potential for it to be the perfect Outlier project: an elevated piece with major tentpole potential.

While plot details are being kept under wraps, T-Minus will be adapted from the Philip K. Dick sci-fi 1974 short story A Little Something for Us Tempunauts.

Upon her introduction in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Isla Faust quickly became a fan-favourite character, but she sadly made her exit in last year’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. During an episode of WrapWomen’s Unwrapped podcast, Rebecca Ferguson explained why the time was right to leave the Mission: Impossible franchise.

“To speak very clearly — because I know a lot of people are sad about it, I’m sad about it — I had filmed three films. My deal was done,” Ferguson explained. “And I love her beyond words. Beyond words. I think she’s the most awesome, fantastic character.“

However, the actress explained that there was an offer on the table for her to return for Mission: Impossible 8, but she decided that she didn’t want Isla to become too much of a team player. “And we all can want different things, but for me, Ilsa was rogue,...

Tim McGovern, a visual effects veteran who earned an Oscar for his work on 1990’s Total Recall, died Saturday. He was 68.

His wife, Reena NeGandhi, posted the news on Facebook.

“Today is the saddest day of my life,” she wrote. “My Husband Tim McGovern, an Oscar winner for the VFX in 1990’s for Total Recall and several more awards from the Ves has died today. He passed away in his sleep.”

A digital effects pioneer, McGovern was a Visual Effects Society board member for nearly two decades. He served as vice chair as well as founding co-chair of the Ves Awards committee. In October, McGovern received the Ves Founders Award and was bestowed lifetime Ves membership.

“We were saddened and shocked by the sudden news of Tim’s untimely passing,” said Kim Davidson, Ves chair. “Tim and I have been Ves members and colleagues for many years, and his passion...

As last year’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (which has dropped the “Part One” subtitle since it hit home video) wrapped up, we saw that Tom Cruise’s Imf agent lead character Ethan Hunt would live to run another day – and pictures from the set of Mission: Impossible 8 (which won’t be called Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two after all) show him doing just that! Cruise running is a big part of these movies and his overall career, so it’s nice to see that Mission: Impossible 8 will indeed have him moving across the screen as fast as his legs can carry him. There’s even some video from the set as well, if you want to see this run in action.

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Despite the title change(s), Mission: Impossible 8 will indeed...

Rebecca Ferguson gained worldwide recognition in 2013 when she starred as Elizabeth Woodville (Queen Elizabeth) in the BBC miniseries The White Queen. Her portrayal earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie.

However, Ferguson’s big break in Hollywood came with the 2015 action thriller Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation. She played the role of former intelligence operative Ilsa Faust alongside Tom Cruise. Her performance earned her critical acclaim.

Rebecca Ferguson in Mission Impossible—Rogue Nation

In the latest Mission Impossible movie, Ferguson’s character, Ilsa Faust, had a gripping exit as her character met a tragic end. But the actress had a different idea for her character.

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Rebecca Ferguson Preferred Different Farewell from Mission Impossible Franchise...

Five years have gone by since Tom Cruise announced that Paramount Pictures had given the greenlight to two more Mission: Impossible movies, with Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) writer/director Christopher McQuarrie returning to the helm. At one point, we thought these movies were going to carry the titles Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two… but Paramount is backtracking from that decision. After Dead Reckoning Part One underwhelmed at the box office when it was released last year, the studio has dropped Part One from the subtitle and has let it be known that the next film, which is still in production, will have a different title. A decision they really should have made before releasing the first half of the story. At least we’re still getting the second half of the story, with the...

Hollywood’s buzzing with gossip lately, especially about Rebecca Ferguson. She’s caught up in some serious allegations that have everyone talking. But in the middle of all this drama, Emily Blunt stands out as the innocent one. While the 40-year-old deals with accusations from a co-star on the set, Blunt comes out untouched, showing her integrity.

Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica in Dune

Everyone’s curious about what really went down, but Blunt’s just showing us all how to keep it cool and classy in the midst of chaos. It’s definitely worth keeping an eye on this story.

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How Is Emily Blunt Shielded From Rebecca Ferguson’s Allegations?

How does Emily Blunt dodge the drama amidst accusations swirling around Rebecca Ferguson?...

With the ensemble cast featuring stars like Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, and Anya Taylor-Joy, Dune: Part Two is an adventurous cinematic experience. In a time where the number of cinema-goers is diminishing, it is also a gamble that only big studios like Warner Bros. can play. And so far it seems that WB has been dealt a great hand.

The film is enthralling. However, it wasn’t just the viewers and fans of the novels who were taken aback by the surprising bits. Self-admittedly, there’s someone on the cast who didn’t know certain things about the film until they saw it. Rebecca Ferguson talked about her experience watching the film on the red carpet of its premiere.

Austin Butler and Timothée Chalamet in Dune: Part Two

Rebecca Ferguson Was Left Surprised After Watching Dune: Part Two

Hollywood actress Rebecca Ferguson played the role of Lady...

A new rumor regarding Rebecca Ferguson’s character from Mission Impossible has been making the rounds on the internet. And unlike most rumors, it is about a topic that has been publically discussed and even reported on extensively: Why did Ilsa Faust have to die in the Mission Impossible franchise?

Ethan Hunt and Ilsa Faust

Rebecca Ferguson played the character of Ilsa Faust from Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation to Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part 1, in which she was killed. While the reason for the choice has been made public, a new rumor has been circulating, potentially pointing towards some behind-the-scenes drama that could have caused Ferguson to lose the role, rather than Faust’s death being a narrative necessity.

Suggested“That’s a boring storyline”: Rebecca Ferguson Had a Blunt Confession for Her Mission: Impossible Future With Tom Cruise That Upset Fans

Rebecca Ferguson’s agent was trying...

Whether it may be being part of an insane psychologically-charged drama or a packed-to-the-walls action film with none other than Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson can be said to have developed an iron heart and mind to take on challenges that might look crazy to many. But contrary to even she may have believed, watching Austin Butler act may have proven too much even for her.

Rebecca Ferguson in a still from Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation

In a recent interview, the actress was asked about all the on-set details of her upcoming film Dune: Part Two, including what other stars on set were like to witness while shooting for the film. Ferguson was quick to bring Butler into the conversation, claiming that she was downright scared of him when he was in character during the filming process.

Rebecca Ferguson Was Terrified Of Austin Butler In Character While Shooting For Dune: Part Two...

Fans of Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt can now find each and every one of his adventures streaming on-demand on Paramount+.

Heads up, all Imf operators! You can now find all movies from the “Mission: Impossible” franchise in one place. Paramount has announced that it has united each and every one of the Tom Cruise-led films under one streaming banner, and fans can find the “Mission: Impossible” films — including 2023’s “Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning” — on Paramount+ today.

Previously, Paramount+ had access to several “Mission: Impossible” movies, but not all. Cruise has appeared in the lead role in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise since 1996. The original 1966 TV series of the same name is also streaming on Paramount+ on-demand. Get 30 Days Free $5.99+ / month paramountplus.com

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The franchise follows the adventures...

Exclusive: Christopher McQuarrie has major change in his representation. He has left CAA, his longtime manager Ken Kamins at Key Creatives, and his attorney David Fox. I’m told he will be represented by Matt Galsor at Greenberg Glusker. He is the attorney for Tom Cruise, with whom McQuarrie has been a regular collaborator on the Mission: Impossible blockbuster films.

This is a shocker reverberating around town. It sounds like McQuarrie has a lot of his runway lit going into the future; among other things, he is producing the outer space movie that Cruise and director Doug Liman are planning with Universal, NASA and Space X. I understand there wasn’t a lot of drama here in the conveyance of the exit, but if McQuarrie has his dance card set far into the future, it certainly seems like he will be saving a lot of money in commissions. None of...

What’s new on Amazon’s Prime Video in February 2024?

In light of Valentine’s Day, Prime Video nailed it. This February, the platform is bringing a variety of new shows and movies for you and yours. There is something for everyone — from the latest releases to classic romantic comedies to thrillers and more.

Rom-com “Upgraded,” starring Camila Mendes and Archie Renaux, hits the streamer on Friday, while a series adaptation of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s steamy spy thriller “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is already taking the world by storm since its Feb. 2 debut with stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine.

The platform will also debut 2015’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” with Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson, last year’s animated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” and the well-liked 2014 indie “St.Vincent” with Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts and Chris O’Dowd.

And don’t forget about...

In a very expensive mix-up, Tom Hollander was once sent a ‘seven figure’ Spider-Man bonus payment intended for Tom Holland, the actor reveals.

If you’ve occasionally get confused between British actors Tom Hollander and Tom Holland, fear not: their own talent agency once made the same mistake.

Speaking on the US talk show Late Night With Seth Meyers, Tom Hollander – the star of, among other things, Joe Wright’s Pride And Prejudice and TV’s The White Lotus – revealed that he once received an email for a ‘seven figure sum’ that was supposed to have been sent to Tom Holland.

Tom Holland is famous, of course, for playing Spider-Man both in his own string of movies and other entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“I thought, ‘I don’t think I’m in The Avengers. It was an astonishing amount of money,'” Hollander said, as picked up by Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter.

Tom Hollander is a British actor known for performances in “Pride & Prejudice,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, “The White Lotus” and “The Night Manager,” the latter of which earned him a BAFTA Award. What he isn’t is Tom Holland, the 27-year-old superstar who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

During a recent appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Hollander remembered the one time his agency mixed him up with Holland via an email, sending the Marvel star’s box office bonus was mistakenly sent to the British thespian.

“People in the account’s department of my agency got confused. We were with the same agents briefly. And it was a terrible moment,” Hollander told Meyers with his trademark dry wit. “I went to see my friend who was doing theater in England. I sat smugly in the audience just having done a BBC...

James Cameron confirmed today that he and Kate Winslet are working together again on Avatar 3, the third film in the director’s $5 billion-and-counting franchise. Cameron recently said the project’s post production schedule was “hectic,” but the film is due out “Christmas of ’25.”

Cameron said in an interview with People that Winslet will once again play Ronal. While Winslet’s involvement in Avatar: The Way of Water was relatively minimal, it sounds like she will have more to do in the third film.

The director said Winslet “went to school” with a real-life shaman to learn more about she will employ in the 2025 release.

“When you see her doing that purification ritual to try to revive Kitty in the film and some of the stuff that she’s going to do in movie three, that’s based on actual practice,” he said.

Kate Winslet broke Tom Cruise's underwater...

Every actor brings specific expectations to their projects. If you're starring in a superhero film, you might hope to wear a nifty costume or perhaps do some scenery-chewing as a diabolical villain. If you're in a monster movie, you might hope to be one of the final survivors or, if not that, then someone who gets taken out in a gloriously shocking manner on par with Samuel L. Jackson's infamous demise in "Deep Blue Sea." And if you're in a Western, you're undoubtedly going to hope that you get to wear a ten-gallon hat and do some horseback riding.

Tragically, Wes Bentley hasn't exactly gotten to put his horsemanship skills to the test as Jamie Dutton on Taylor Sheridan's immensely popular neo-Western series, "Yellowstone." The Harvard Law School graduate and adopted son of the Dutton patriarch John Dutton III (played by Kevin Costner) is more likely to be...

Hollywood star Tom Cruise’s next ‘Mission: Impossible’ film has been delayed until May 2025. It’s also said that the film will also undergo a name change with a new title expected to be announced at a later date.

However, the picture is still expected to directly follow the events of ‘Dead Reckoning Part 1’, reports Female First UK.

The movie had been in production this year but shut down to allow the cast to promote the first instalment over the summer.

However, the cameras remained off as the Hollywood actors strike started in July meaning the cast could not get back to work on the film.

As per Female First UK, the action film is among a number of other titles which have also been pushed back including ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ – a prequel to the 2018 original starring Lupita Nyong’o and Denis Hare — which had originally been due for...

Hollywood star Tom Cruise’s next ‘Mission: Impossible’ film has been delayed until May 2025. It’s also said that the film will also undergo a name change with a new title expected to be announced at a later date.

However, the picture is still expected to directly follow the events of ‘Dead Reckoning Part 1’, reports Female First UK.

The movie had been in production this year but shut down to allow the cast to promote the first instalment over the summer.

However, the cameras remained off as the Hollywood actors strike started in July meaning the cast could not get back to work on the film.

As per Female First UK, the action film is among a number of other titles which have also been pushed back including ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ – a prequel to the 2018 original starring Lupita Nyong’o and Denis Hare — which had originally been due for...

Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström, a Swedish actress, commenced her acting journey on the Swedish soap opera Nya tider (1999–2000) and later took on a lead role in the slasher film Drowning Ghost (2004). Her breakthrough came when she portrayed Elizabeth Woodville in the British television miniseries The White Queen (2013), earning her a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film. In 2023, she starred in the science fiction drama series Silo on Apple TV+.

Ferguson gained recognition for her portrayal of MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in the action spy film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and its subsequent installments Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). Notably, she played Jenny Lind in the musical film The Greatest Showman (2017), appeared in the science fiction horror film Life (2017), took on a role in the horror film Doctor Sleep (2019), and had supporting parts in the...

One of the biggest movies of the summer is coming home. Paramount Pictures has announced the home video release dates for "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One," which serves as the seventh entry in the franchise overall. It's also the first installment in an epic two-parter, as the title implies. So fans would do well to get caught up before Tom Cruise suits up again as Ethan Hunt next summer for some more crazy stunts.

Let's dive into how and when you can watch the movie from the comfort of home.

"Dead Reckoning Part One" is set to arrive on Digital beginning Tuesday, October 10, 2023. On that date, the movie will be available to rent or purchase from digital retailers such as Amazon Prime Video, Vudu, Google Play, Apple TV, and a variety of others. As is typically the case with new movies these days, it will first be available...

Christopher McQuarrie's 2015 film "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" is arguably the best film in the series. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) was getting a little older and was considered decreasingly trustworthy by his sour-faced bosses at the Impossible Missions Force. "Rogue Nation" saw him tracking down the identities of a rogue nation of ex-spies who were secretly working together to, essentially, destroy the world. Complicating matters, however, was a mysterious free agent named Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) who had to commit secret spy shenanigans for her own reasons. Like "Mad Max: Fury Road" from the same year, "Rogue Nation" not only upped the voltage on the action but shifted focus away from the central male character, placing it instead on a much more interesting and capable woman. 

This was also the third film to feature Simon Pegg as the character of Benji, a one-time desk jockey who had become an...

After taking over the reins of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, director Chris McQuarrie quickly put his own stamp on the series. From 2015's "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" to 2023's "Dead Reckoning Part One," McQuarrie's take on the series has brought it back to its roots in creating heightened, suspenseful espionage scenarios. It's also made the movies even bigger.

The stunts of Ethan Hunt are one aspect in which the series has to consistently top itself. But for McQuarrie, it's also important that each movie embraces a different kind of spectacular filmmaking, something spontaneous and creative that goes beyond simple James Bond-esque globetrotting gunfights and car chases. Because of that impulse, he might have gone too far with a scene in 2018's "Mission: Impossible - Fallout," which is probably why it didn't make the final cut.

The scene in question would have involved the introduction of Alanna Mitsopolis (Vanessa Kirby), or the White Widow,...

Ever since Christopher McQuarrie took over writing and directing the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, you will oftentimes see characters confronted with a problem that needs solving, and they will deliver a line like, "I'm working on it" or "I'll figure it out." One of my favorite instances of this is in "Fallout" after the exceptional bathroom fight scene. Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa says to Tom Cruise's Ethan, "You don't understand what you're involved in," and he responds with, "I don't understand what I'm involved in? I don't understand what I'm involved in? (long pause) What am I involved in?"

Ethan Hunt and his fellow I.M.F. agents are also problem-solving in real time. They never have all the information, never have all the context, and never have a foolproof plan. Stuff is always going wrong, be it technology failing or someone double-crossing them. All of those spectacular Tom Cruise...